MELE MEL

(sometimes spelled Melle Mel)

2007 interview

Grandmaster Mele Mel is the first rapper to ever call himself an "MC" & Hip-Hop music’s first rap superstar. He is the voice of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, the group that invented the term "Hip-Hop" (thank you Keith Cowboy). They are the first & only Hip-Hop group ever to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. As lead rapper & lyricist for the group, Mele Mel is singled out by music historians as the man most responsible for changing the focus in Hip-Hop music from a DJ's dominated art form to one dominated by the MC's. It has remained that way ever since. In a recent BBC poll of his peers, Mele Mel was named "G.O.A.T. - Greatest Rapper Of All-Time"!!

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